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Job 31:23

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

For I was in terror of calamity from God, and I could not have faced his majesty.

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he is not greater in this house than I am; nor has he kept back anything from me except yourself, because you are his wife; how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?”

The former governors who were before me laid heavy burdens upon the people, and took from them food and wine, besides forty shekels of silver. Even their servants lorded it over the people. But I did not do so, because of the fear of God.

Will not his majesty terrify you, and the dread of him fall upon you?

To fill his belly to the full God will send his fierce anger into him, and rain it upon him as his food.

Let their own eyes see their destruction, and let them drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

Terrors are turned upon me; my honor is pursued as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed away like a cloud.

Does not calamity befall the unrighteous, and disaster the workers of iniquity?

Have you an arm like God, and can you thunder with a voice like his?

My flesh trembles for fear of thee, and I am afraid of thy judgments.

But thou, terrible art thou! Who can stand before thee when once thy anger is roused?

Afflicted and close to death from my youth up, I suffer thy terrors; I am helpless.

Wail, for the day of the Lord is near; as destruction from the Almighty it will come!

Alas for the day! For the day of the Lord is near, and as destruction from the Almighty it comes.

Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade men; but what we are is known to God, and I hope it is known also to your conscience.




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